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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

The menus and html text look great. However, fonts in dialog boxes and pop-up alerts look kind of choppy. For example, go to www.google.com - the text looks bad in the buttons labeled "google search" and "I'm feeling lucky". Or, type in an incorrect web address and the pop-up warning saying that the address can't be found has ugly text.

I am sure this is just a matter of knowing the correct options for the userChrome file. I have searched the example list at mozilla.org (http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html) and done extensive googling. However, I have not been able to find a good, complete description of how to configure this file.

Does anyone know where to find complete documentation on the userChrome.css file. Or does anyone know how to make these fonts look better?

I had a similar problem recently - after some upgrades, all the menu and button fonts in all my GTK applications looked large and ugly. I still haven't figured out how to configure that font preference system-wide, but for Firefox at least there's the userChrome.css. Here's what I put in mine:

Code:

* {
font-size: 14px !important;
font-family: sans !important;
}

The "*" takes care of pretty much everything. I still get the ugly fonts occasionally in drop-down boxes on webpages (maybe that's covered in userContent.css), but the Google buttons you mentioned are covered by the "*" directive above.

Unfortunately the documentation for userChrome.css seems to be severely lacking. What would be really nice is a GUI interface to configuring user stylesheets - hard to believe there's no plugin for that yet. The best we can do for now I guess is to try to learn from existing examples.